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The Berlin Firewall
SteynonLine ^ | February24, 2025 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/24/2025 8:01:20 AM PST by Twotone

That German election? As I wrote last August:

Here is an all too typical Euro-headline:

'Tens of thousands demonstrate against AfD after stabbings in Solingen'

Gotta love the commitment of the diversity lemmings. Even as they're on the ground punctured by multiple stab wounds, they'll be fretting that the amount of their blood all over the sidewalk risks provoking even more 'Islamophobia' from the 'far right'.

So yes, the AfD had a good night, coming second and doubling their share of the vote to a smidgeonette under twenty-one per cent. But the remaining seventy-nine per cent voted to keep stabbing themselves for the next four years. The "conservative" Friedrich Merz and his CDU/CSU "won" the election with 28.5 per cent and immediately announced that he would not form a coalition with the AfD because the "far right" is "happy if the problems get worse and worse".

Actually, it's Herr Merz who will ensure that Germany's problems get worse. The threat from the "far right" prompted Merz to butch up for the election on immigration - not terribly convincingly in my opinion, but even a perfunctory genuflection is telling. However, the campaign's over, and it's time to butch down again. To govern Germany, he will need to form a coalition with the SPD - which is, in Yank terms, like a pre-Trump Republican Party forming a coalition with the Dems. If Merz needs a third party in his coalition, his friends in the CSU would prefer it not be the Greens - which is like a pre-Trump GOP forming a coalition with the Dems plus a leftie nutters' party led by AOC and exercising a veto on anything that might make a difference.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afd; germany; marksteyn

1 posted on 02/24/2025 8:01:20 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Bkmk


2 posted on 02/24/2025 8:06:05 AM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Twotone

Bkmk


3 posted on 02/24/2025 8:06:06 AM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Twotone
In any objective sense, it is Zelenskyyyyy's patrons who have lost: The most senior figures in the Uniparty - Joe Biden on the one hand and Lindsey Graham on the other - demanded regime change in the Kremlin
4 posted on 02/24/2025 8:09:08 AM PST by Jeff Chandler
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To: Twotone

From the map in the article it is interesting that almost all the constituencies that AfD won are in what was East Germany.


5 posted on 02/24/2025 8:10:24 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: Twotone

Honestly? I think Germany, France, and Britan are finished. Absent collective national repentance and a cry to almighty God, Europe is done, and the conquering will be complete within the next decade. It’s over.

There is this great deception that has swept Europe, and so when the book of Revelation speaks about mass beheadings it doesn’t seem like a stretch to see how this is now being set up right before our eyes.


6 posted on 02/24/2025 8:14:09 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: JSM_Liberty
They have more recent memories of the failures of left-wing government. West Germany still thinks it can work.
7 posted on 02/24/2025 8:29:18 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Twotone

Nobody won the election in Germany!
The communist and greens got a quarter of votes.
CDU almost 29%.
CDU could have a great coalition with AfD with enough seats to rule comfortably. That coalition would assure some change and shakeup.
But it looks like, since Free Democrats lost everything, and AfD is excluded, there will be only other possible coalition of CDU with SPD. Basically the same people, who ruled Germany since WWII.
Nothing will change! They just change few people on the top, CDU get chancellorship and few more seat, but the decay will continue.


8 posted on 02/24/2025 8:39:44 AM PST by AZJeep
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